Saturday, July 15, 2017

Definitive Blog On The Fukushima Hoax And Nuclear Energy...Is There Any To Be Harnished???

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an
energy accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima,
initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake
on 11 March 2011. Immediately after the earthquake, the active
reactors automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions.
However, the tsunami destroyed the emergency generators cooling the
reactors,

causing reactor 4 to overheat from the decay
heat from the fuel rods. The insufficient cooling led to three
nuclear meltdowns and the release of radioactive material beginning
on 12 March. Several hydrogen-air chemical explosions occurred
between 12 March and 15 March.

On 5 July 2012, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of
the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety
requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing
collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. On 12 October
2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take
necessary measures for fear of inviting

The earthquake triggered a 13-to-15-metre (43
to 49 ft) high tsunami that arrived approximately 50 minutes later.
The waves overtopped the plant's 5.7 metres (19 ft) seawall,
flooding the basements of the power plant's turbine buildings and
disabling the emergency diesel generators at approximately 15:41.
TEPCO then notified authorities of a "first- level emergency".
The switching stations that provided power from the three backup
generators located higher on the hillside failed when the building
that housed them flooded. Power for the plant's control systems
switched to batteries designed to provide power for about eight
hours. Further batteries and mobile generators were dispatched to the
site, but were delayed by poor road conditions; the first arrived at
21:00 11 March, almost six hours after the tsunami struck. Multiple
unsuccessful attempts were made to connect portable generating
equipment to power water pumps. The failure was attributed to
flooding at the connection point in the Turbine Hall basement and the
absence of suitable cables. TEPCO switched its efforts to installing
new lines from the grid. One generator at unit 6 resumed operation on
17 March, while external power returned to units 5 and 6 only on 20
March.